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Throughout the confetti-filled grand-opening celebration for Orlando's new arts center, the cheers from one key part of the community remained muted: leaders of Central Florida's arts groups. A survey distributed by the Orlando Sentinel shortly before the Nov. 7 debut of downtown's Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts shows that many local arts executives don't plan to use the venue, feel disconnected from its leadership and fear the facility's fundraising for a third theater will hurt their own organizations' bottom lines. "It helps raise Orlando's arts profile," wrote one respondent, typical of many replies. "But for our local...

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Throughout the confetti-filled grand-opening celebration for Orlando's new arts center, the cheers from one key part of the community remained muted: leaders of Central Florida's arts groups.
A survey distributed by the Orlando Sentinel shortly before...

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